Garrett Caples Explained

Garrett Caples
Birth Place:Lawrence, Massachusetts, United States
Occupation:Poet, editor, journalist
Years Active:Late 1990s–present

Garrett Caples (born 1972) is an American poet and former music and arts journalist. Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, he currently lives in San Francisco, California, after fifteen years in Oakland.[1] An editor at City Lights Books, Caples curates the new American poetry series, City Lights Spotlight.[2] From 2005 to 2014, he wrote on hip hop, literature, and painting for the San Francisco Bay Guardian,[3] and has written fiction on unusual sexual practices, like omorashi.[4]

As a hip hop journalist, Caples has been the first write on various Bay Area rappers, including J Stalin,[5] D-Lo,[6] Eddi Projex,[7] Traxamillion, Droop-E,[8] and Shady Nate.[9] He's also written cover stories on more established stars like E-40,[10] Mac Dre,[11] Mistah FAB,[12] Husalah (Mob Figaz),[13] and The Jacka (Mob Figaz).[14] Significantly, his interview with Shock-G of Digital Underground announced the end of that classic hip hop crew.[15]

Caples is the author of The Garrett Caples Reader (Angle Press/Black Square Editions, 1999), er, um (Meritage Press, 2002), The Philistine's Guide to Hip Hop (Ninevolt, 2004), and Complications (Meritage Press, 2007).[16] In 2006, Narrow house Recordings released a cd of Caples reading his poems with lo-fi musical accompaniment called Surrealism's Bad Rap. His latest book of poems, Power Ballads, appeared from Wave Books in September 2016.[17]

Caples is also the editor of Pocket Poets Number 60, When I Was a Poet, by David Meltzer (City Lights, 2011) and Number 59, Tau by Philip Lamantia & Journey to the End by John Hoffman (City Lights, 2008).[18] His pamphlet, Quintessence of the Minor: Symbolist Poetry in English, was published by Wave Books in 2010.[19] With Nancy Peters and Andrew Joron, he is the editor of The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia for the University of California Press (2013). With Julien Poirier, he has edited Incidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems by New York School poet Frank Lima for City Lights Books (2016).[20] A shortened version of his introduction, "The Lives of Frank Lima," received the Editors Prize for Best Feature Article from Poetry magazine.[21] His book of essays, Retrievals, was published in 2014 by Wave Books, and features essays he wrote over a ten-year period about various writers and artists who have disappeared from view or never achieved much visibility despite their significance, "written in Caples' signature blend of erudition and élan."[22] Caples also edited Mule Kick Blues, And Last Poems (City Lights Publishers, 2021), the final book of poems by Michael McClure.[23]

Bibliography

Full-length poetry collections
Fiction
Critique
Audio CDs
Chapbooks
Pamphlets
Anthology appearances

Notes and References

  1. Web site: PhillySound: new poetry . Phillysound.blogspot.com . October 21, 2011.
  2. Web site: City Lights Books : City Lights Spotlight . Citylights.com . October 21, 2011.
  3. Web site: Masthead | San Francisco Bay Guardian . Sfbg.com . October 21, 2011.
  4. Web site: Caples . Garrett . The Omorashi Girls . 11 February 2006 . The Brooklyn Rail . October 21, 2011.
  5. http://www.sfbg.com/2006/04/25/ruling-party and http://www.sfbg.com/2010/02/09/80s-babies
  6. Web site: D-Lo | San Francisco Bay Guardian . Sfbg.com . October 21, 2011.
  7. Web site: On like him | San Francisco Bay Guardian . Sfbg.com . April 6, 2005 . October 21, 2011.
  8. Web site: Say 'Bay'; San Francisco Bay Guardian . Sfbg.com . May 5, 2014.
  9. Web site: Out of the shadows | San Francisco Bay Guardian . Sfbg.com . October 21, 2011.
  10. Web site: sfbg . San Francisco Bay Guardian | News . Sfbg.com . October 21, 2011.
  11. Web site: sfbg . San Francisco Bay Guardian | News . Sfbg.com . October 21, 2011.
  12. Web site: Holdin' the weight of the Bay | San Francisco Bay Guardian . Sfbg.com . October 21, 2011.
  13. Web site: Administrator . Hyphy Thizz Go: Dope, rap, and religion . Hyphythizzgo.blogspot.com . July 12, 2006 . October 21, 2011.
  14. Web site: Tears of a thug | San Francisco Bay Guardian . Sfbg.com . October 21, 2011.
  15. Web site: Shocked, G? | San Francisco Bay Guardian . Sfbg.com . October 21, 2011.
  16. Web site: Verse: NEW! Review of Garrett Caples . Versemag.blogspot.com . April 22, 2008 . October 21, 2011.
  17. Web site: Power Ballads.
  18. Web site: Tau By Philip Lamantia and Journey to the End By John Hoffman, Pocket Poets Number 59 . Citylights.com . April 22, 2008 . October 21, 2011.
  19. Web site: Wave Books . Wavepoetry.com . October 21, 2011 .
  20. Web site: Incidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems | Harvard Review Online . 2019-05-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170330191611/http://harvardreview.fas.harvard.edu/?q=features%2Fbook-review%2Fincidents-travel-poetry-new-and-selected-poems . 2017-03-30 . dead .
  21. Web site: 2016 Prizes for Contributors to Poetry Announced. 21 September 2021.
  22. Web site: Fall Arts 2014: Books: What You Need to Read and Which Literary Events You Need to Attend This Season.
  23. Web site: The Book.

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